A right-wing rally in Boston was overwhelmed by tens of thousands of protesters who turned out to demonstrate in the wake of last weekend’s violence at a white supremacists’ rally in Virginia.

The “Boston Free Speech Rally” broke up quickly, more than an hour ahead of schedule and before the speaking program was completed, as a huge throng of counterprotesters approached Boston Common. As rally-goers left the area, some altercations broke out in the crowd.